Fifty years of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 / edited by Joanna Miles, Daniel Monk, and Rebecca Probert.
Contributor(s): Miles, Joanna [editor.]
| Monk, Daniel [editor.] | Probert, Rebecca [editor.].Publisher: Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2022Description: xii, 295 pages : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509947898; 9781509947881; 9781509947904.Subject(s): Great Britain. Divorce Reform Act 1969 | Divorce -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- History | Law reform -- Great Britain -- History | Domestic relations -- Great BritainDDC classification: 346.166041 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| 344.046 GOO Client Earth / | 346.016 PRO Tying the knot : the formation of marriage, 1836-2020 / | 346.15041 THO Quiet revolutionaries : the Married Women's Association and family law / | 346.410166 FIF Fifty years of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 / |
I. Introduction -- 'Irretrievably broken'? Introducing the life-story of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 / Joanna Miles, Daniel Monk and Rebecca Probert -- Divorces by fact proven over the past half century in England and Wales : the historical context, statistical trends and future prospects / John Haskey -- II. Background -- Dynamic impasse : divorce and British film in the mid-twentieth century / James Brown -- Feminism, property and divorce law reform in the 1960s / Rosemary Auchmuty -- Putting asunder – reappraised / Rosie Sinclair -- Behind Casanova's Charter : Edith Summerskill, divorce and the deserted wife / Sharon Thompson -- III. Telling stories about divorce and marriage -- Divorced from reality? Literary depictions of the legal process for ending a marriage, 1971–2021 / Rebecca Probert -- Judging matrimonial behaviour / Joanna Miles -- Telling tales? Establishing irretrievable breakdown under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 / Liz Trinder -- Royal divorces and the remaking of marriage and monarchy / Daniel Monk -- IV. Contemporary perspectives and challenges -- Divorced from human rights? English divorce law under human rights scrutiny / Carmen Draghici -- British Muslim communities, Islamic divorce and English family law / Samia Bano -- Dissolution, divorce and changing practices of commitment / Brian Heaphy and James Hodgson.